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Front Row: Suranne Jones returns as Doctor Foster, Lancashire's Fabrications Festival, Josephine Barstow on Sondheim's Follies

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04/09/2017

Suranne Jones returns as Doctor Foster, Lancashire's Fabrications Festival, Josephine Barstow on Sondheim's Follies

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Suranne Jones returns as Doctor Foster, Lancashire's Fabrications Festival, Josephine Barstow on Sondheim's Follies

Doctor Foster is back; Stephen Sondheim's Follies; remembering Steely Dan's Walter Becker.

Suranne Jones on her return to the Doctor Foster role; Lancashire's Fabrications Festival; and the director and cast of Stephen Sondheim's rarely-staged musical, Follies.

As Doctor Foster returns to BBC One this week, Suranne Jones discusses reprising her BAFTA Award-winning title role.

We remember Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of Steely Dan, who has died at the age of 67. 

Stephen Sondheim's rarely-staged musical Follies opens this week at the National Theatre in London. John Wilson speaks to director Dominic Cooke, actress Janie Dee and veteran soprano Dame Josephine Barstow about the demands of the show - a tale of lost youth, romance and nostalgia for a bygone showbiz era. 

Front Row goes on the road with Harriet Riddell, a textile performance artist who is cycling a 22-mile stretch of the Leeds to Liverpool canal as part of the Fabrications Festival, exploring textiles through the eyes of artists. We follow Harriet as she uses her portable sewing machine to make a record of the places and people she meets.

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